There are ways to remove the risk (explosives) but that comes with a cost of materials or cover for yourself depending on the game. Higher difficulties teach you that those removals are the biggest part of early game strategy
That wonderful moment in the TLP DLC where you realise there is no loot to worry about and suddenly grenade spam is back on the menu. 💥
The game values information. You have to move to get information.
This is why Reapers were so OP in WotC. They could end up telling you everything about a map and do so while in stealth and often almost right next a hostile. Getting them before the other factions could literally make or break some playthroughs they were that good.
The region perk for a bonus ally was a complete waste of a perk slot, and even if you had no others the actual performance would be so bad you were asking for shit to go wrong.
Baseline stats, so they would fail to hit anything. Baseline gear, so even if you were rocking T3 guns and gear you'd find yourself with maybe a T2 groupie that was never going to do much vs all the armour and hp late game brought with it. Even just the shitty grenades they had were pointless as frags had shit shredding, shit damage, and shit aoe.
I'd take any other perk over those if I could, even the ones for stupid shit like sending lightly injured soldiers into combat, which I'd never do in the first place!
I'm not saying story is a bad thing
I am. A lot of current writers are completely shit which leads to reusing old ideas in the hope nobody notices, a reminder that regardless of how shit the ending to ME3 was the 3 choices at the end were literally the same 3 choices from Deus Ex in 2000, or some incompetent tumblr tier fanfic writer who throws new OCs into year old franchises and fucks things up so badly there is no going back. See all the criticism the BFA and SL expansions from WoW get for an example of this. To make matters worse a lot of players suddenly think Blizz brining back Chris Metzan is going to solve these problems when he's already shown to be suffering from "Death of the author" and virtue signalling his own fuckups as if they were a good idea on any level. See his comments about letting his daughter comment and influence game design changes when she's 5 years below the age rating for the game.
If you want a real case of self inflicted whiplash look up the unaired alt pilot for TBBT. Sheldon is a completely different kind of character, same actor however, and was very quickly changed from a potential Chad to what the show went with.
Remember that's how the first episode starts, with Roy being introduced at his desk eating something while the phone is going leading to that conversation.
Then later on when he's physically checking one of the computers the bloody thing isn't plugged in!
Just... never watch the attempted US version of the show.
Brock Lesner tried a shooting star press on Kurt Angle and he fucked it up so bad I believe he gave himself a concussion for real.
I remember watching that live and the botch was horrifying. He's lucky he didn't paralyse himself or worse. He gave interviews later that he couldn't remember the last few minutes of the match because of the self inflicted concussion.
So mosquitoes are something I know quite a bit about due to uni and other things. This advise is to the surprise of nobody both extremely stupid and attempting to peddle a vague mandate in the name of public safety.
"Mosquitoes" refers to over 3000 species of fly from the Genera Culicidae, and while carriers of diseases are far more specific, literally based on the species, unless someone is very well trained and extremely perceptive you can rare ID a mosquito in the wild without it being complete stationary or scanned by a laser sensor.
The former is next to impossible because trying to get close to one will startle it. The latter is costly because even just the scanning component of a photonic fence is going to be expensive and they're not abundant enough to work like that, not are they deployed in 1st world countries for reasons despite the ones that would get deployed in 3rd world counties being stolen and scavenged.
The simple fact is mosquitoes are never, ever going to be eradicated. There are just too many species of them and the only places on Earth they are not found are Antarctica and for reasons relating to just how batshit insane the weather can be, Iceland. That's it. If you want to avoid mosquitoes either move to a land inhabited by penguins and insane research scientists, or a land with so many active volcanos the actual land is still increasing in mass. So either you freeze to death, burn to death, or suffer mosquitoes.
A quick check on EEE says:
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It's a Togavirus/Togaviridae, which means it's quite distant from other more common mosquito viruses such as the Flaviviridae which includes Dengue, West Nile, Yellow Fever [hence the name Flavi = yellow in Latin], Japanese Encephalitis, and others.
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It is transmitted by Culiseta mosquitoes which transmit the virus between various bird hosts that are then fed upon by other mosquitoes such as Aedes [known for carryiny Dengue], Coquillettidia, and Culex [known for carrying West Nile] which can transfer EEE to mammals.
Some quick searches suggest Culiseta mosquitoes are active in the evening however this might not be the case for all of them and regardless even if it is the presence of other genera/species in the mix means it doesn't matter because if they are active outwith the times being suggested for the curfew then it won't fucking matter!
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It was first recognised in Massachusetts in 1831 when 75 horses died.
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Florida gets 1 to 2 cases in humans a year with over 60 equine cases.
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This can rise to over 200 when conditions favour the virus.
So it's been going on for at least 200 years, because it will have been around before the first reports just nobody realised or cared, and never caused anything more than a few hundred horse deaths, which yes would be financially significant to those affected and moreso 200 years ago but not to the point it should shut down an entire city in 2024.
Also,
EEEV was one of more than a dozen agents that the United States researched as potential biological weapons before the nation suspended its biological-weapons program in 1969, a few years before signing (1972) and then ratifying (1975) the Biological Weapons Convention.
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we all know that for every Archer or Sisko, there's nine, ten, dozens of plodders or absolute shits
The problem with the main cast is most of them are the literal best Starfleet has, more so than the general elite nature of the organisation. Even just the captains highlight the to the extreme.
Archer is the first warp 5 captain. The flashback episode regarding Robinson shows it was an extremely competitive contest as it was so important to Starfleet and humanity as a whole.
Picard commands the flagship of the fleet. His face is basically Starfleet at that point.
Sisko is taking over a still smouldering powderkeg with Bajor immediately after the end of the Cardassian Occupation.
Kirk is considered to be a tactical genius by both Starfleet and other alien empires.
Of the main lineup Janeway ends up being the only one who isn't someone special. She's meant to be tracking down her tactical officer and gets stuck 70'000 light years away because of it. While the idea of how other captains might have faired is brought up a few times, like with Captain Ransom and the USS Equinox that was in the same situation, it was still people that weren't meant to be there so we're out of their depth a lot of the time by design.
Everyone else is still meant to be highly competent even if they end up being one of the background crew or the actual lower decks as the TNG episode did first. Those crewmen showed they weren't just brainless cogs in a machine when one of them figured out the bridge officers were setting up a secret mission instead of just testing phaser fire on a shuttle because the blast patterns were being done in a way to fake live fire damage.
Instead Lower Decks ends up with a crew that should be arrested for treason at a minimum, court martialed, and probably spaced for the safety of everyone else in Starfleet.
Wesley failed the entrance exam the first time he took it, as did Picard, then later fucked up with the flight maneuver that killed a fellow cadet and set Wesley back a year. The started him down a path that ended with him quitting Starfleet before graduating. Picard at least stuck through all the shit he went through at the academy, and that included being stabbed in the heart!
Picard didn't pass the first time, either, however he did graduate from Starfleet unlike Wesley who quit then wandered off with a creepy old man offering candy The Traveller who offered to show him the back of his van mysteries of reality.
And the other reason is why I'm happy to hear rumours Tulsi Gabbard is helping Trump with debate prep for Kamala..
If this were a WWE style event the best possible way for it to play out would be for Kamala to enter the ring first to whatever music her handlers she picked, then when Trump came out he'd not only be in a full suit which is not the attire for wrestling, but also simply stroll down to the ring, then keep strolling around it to the commentary box and sit down. Then Tulsi would show up to her own music, run down to the ring, and the world would get a Kamala vs Tulsi 2: Bitchin' Boogaloo.
/points at the "Don't ride the bomb" sign